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ISBN 13 : 9780851534282
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Gresley Locomotive Album written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian Morrison
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445699818
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Scottish Steam Album written by Brian Morrison and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique collection of photographs showing every type of steam locomotive on the Scottish railways from 1952 to the end of the decade.
Author : Tim Hillier-Graves
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526729946
Total Pages : 881 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Gresley and His Locomotives written by Tim Hillier-Graves and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at the team who worked with the renowned British railway engineer, with numerous photos included. To renowned engineer Nigel Gresley must go great credit for many of the London and North Eastern Railway’s achievements, but those around him have faded into obscurity and are now largely forgotten, even though their contributions were immense. To redress this imbalance, Tim Hillier-Graves has explored the life of Gresley and his team, and sought to uncover a more expansive picture of these events. This in no way diminishes Gresley’s stunning accomplishments—but builds a fuller and more authentic view of a dynamic period in railway history. The book draws upon many sources of information, some of it previously unpublished, to present a fascinating picture of all that happened and all that was achieved, often in the most difficult of circumstances, by a very gifted team of engineers and their exceptional leader.
Author : Tim Hillier-Graves
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1399059564
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Flying Scotsman, and the Story of Gresley's First Pacific Locomotives written by Tim Hillier-Graves and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2023-12-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbert Nigel Gresley’s first Pacifics, though notable in their day, were made universally famous by one of their number – 4722 Flying Scotsman. Throughout her life she has been feted and glamorised far more than any of her sisters and yet when appearing from the LNER Works at Doncaster in 1923 she was just another member of the class, but at some stage, early in her career, she acquired star status and to this day has not lost it. But why is this so and why do people care so deeply about this locomotive even though her deeds were easily exceeded by Gresley’s A4 Pacifics? Was it her styling, her name, her performance or simply the work of very talented purveyors of slick PR? Or was it an amalgam of all these issues? As Flying Scotsman reaches 100 ‘not out’ it is fascinating to reflect on these questions. But to do so we must consider how the Class came about, how they were developed, the impact they made on society as it was then, how they were sold to a waiting public and much more. From all this we may be able to understand why 4472 rose above the others and became an icon that still graces our lives today. It is, the author believes, a story without parallel in railway history.
Author : Tim Hillier-Graves
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1399045091
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Gresley's Master Engineer, Bert Spencer written by Tim Hillier-Graves and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great and the good rarely, if ever, accomplish all they wish to achieve without the able assistance of many skilled men and women. To have a very capable person beside you acting as guide, confidant and adviser is essential. Even better when it is someone with a depth of knowledge equal to, or even better than your own. If all these skills can be combined in one trusted, assistant so much the better. To a leader such a person may be valued ‘beyond rubies’, because they have the ability to take ideas, add something and help make them a reality. For Herbert Nigel Gresley, CME of the LNER, Bert Spencer was just such a man. As Gresley triumphed his faithful, introverted and highly talented assistant remained resolutely in the background playing an unsung yet key role in the development of Gresley’s outstanding Pacifics and his many other memorable locomotives. For sixteen vibrant years Spencer sat beside his greatly admired leader witnessing and participating in all that happened adding much to an emerging legend that still resounds with us today. Here, for the first time, is Spencer’s fascinating story, much of it in his own words. This was made possible by the thoughts and memories he recorded in letters to friends, papers he wrote for the Institution of Locomotive Engineers, official documents and much more. All this has been edited together to produce a unique and important personal narrative of his life and work.
Author : TIM. HILLIER-GRAVES
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781526731166
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Thompson, His Life and Locomotives written by TIM. HILLIER-GRAVES and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Clarke
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ISBN 13 : 9780711030855
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Gresley 4-6-2 A4 Class written by David Clarke and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There can be few more iconic classes of express steam locomotive than the 'A4' class of Pacific designed by Sir Nigel Gresley for use on the LNER's East Coast Main Line. Inspired by a trip to France in 1933, where he had seen the results of streamlining on petrol-engined railcars designed by Ettore Bugatti with the aim of reducing wind resistance, Gresley obtained permission to construct these new locomotives as streamliners in early 1935. The first of the class was completed less than six months after Gresley was given approval for the project and, in all, 35 members of the class were constructed, of which one - No 4468 Mallard - will always have a place in history as the holder of the world speed record for a steam locomotive. Although, for ease of maintenance, the streamlining was modified during the war, these stylish locomotives dominated East Coast services for quarter of a century until replaced by another design that became a classic - the 'Deltic' class. After a swan-song for some of the class on Glasgow-Aberdeen expresses, the last of the class was withdrawn in 1966. Six of the class survive in preservation, with two of the examples being on display in North America.In his second contribution to Ian Allan Publishing's new 'Locomotives in Detail' series, David Clarke provides a reference work for the modeller and historian to the class. As with the earlier volumes, the book includes highly detailed 4mm scale drawings along with a comprehensive selection of both colour and mono photographs that illustrate the considerable variety of livery carried by the locomotives during their careers and the detail differences that marked out each individual locomotive at particular dates. With the model railway market growing and with the proprietary manufacturers producing ever better and more finely-detailed models, the needs of the enthusiast and modeller for ever more detailed information grows in parallel. And this is what the new 'Locomotives in Detail' series provide - a comprehensive and detailed guide to the locomotive class featured for the modeller and historian.
Author : Brian Haresnape
Publisher : Allan
ISBN 13 : 9780711008922
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Gresley Locomotives written by Brian Haresnape and published by Allan. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Tuffrey
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The East Coast Main Line 1939-1959 (Volume 2) written by Peter Tuffrey and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2022-07-02 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • The first detailed study of this huge mainline through its operational history • Features extended commentaries from the authors, rich in detail • Superbly illustrated with black and white photographs, many never seen before In this second and final volume, the whole of the East Coast Main Line between King’s Cross and Edinburgh Waverley stations is examined closely, with a particular emphasis on the ways and structures: the line, stations, connections, yards, and other physical features. Interposed are accounts of the traffic at the principal stations – including connecting and branch line services – with observations on changes over the period 1939 to 1959. Some emphasis is placed on freight traffic on account of its importance and, perhaps, its relative unfamiliarity to the reader. The lines, stations and many other elements are described as they were in August 1939, but as some plans on which they are based are dated before the late 1930s, there may be marginal differences from the precise layout in 1939.
Author : Douglas Doherty
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (741 download)
Download or read book Locomotive Album written by Douglas Doherty and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1054 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Railway Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fred Kerr
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 147389994X
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Flying Scotsman written by Fred Kerr and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Built at Doncaster works in 1923 the Nigel Gresley designed then-A1 class Pacific (4-6-2) first entered service as No 1472. The new locomotive did not receive a name until it was sent for display at a Wembley exhibition in 1924, and then the name Fying Scotsman was chosen. The Legend was born. In 1928 the London North Eastern Railway (LNER) express steam locomotive hauled the first nonstop service from London to Edinburgh and in 1934 went on to break through the 100mph barrier.In addition to regularly hauling express trains for the LNER and later British Railways (BR), the Gresley steam icon has also traveled to, and worked passenger trains in, North America and Australia. Withdrawn by BR in January 1963 as BR No 60103, the locomotive was bought for preservation and soon became a regular sight on mainline specials and at preserved railways. The locomotives history in preservation is an interesting if not chequered one, however stability is now assured as Flying Scotsman has rightly become a part of the national collection administered by the National Railway Museum (NRM). The excitement which surrounded the return to steam of Flying Scotsman in 2016, and the ongoing celebrity status afforded to the famous Gresley designed engine, are perchance confirmation of the fact that it is The Worlds Most Famous Steam Locomotive. The most famous phrase entered into locomotive preservation folklore when first broadcast by John Noakes, a BBC TV Blue Peter presenter. A great many words have been written about the engineering specification and in service performance of Flying Scotsman. Accordingly, this keepsake publication simply uses carefully selected images, dating from the BR steam era to the present day, to celebrate the Return of the Legend. This publication includes a selection of QR Codes with links to items of film footage.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (867 download)
Download or read book A Chronology of Sir Nigel Gresley written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tim Hillier-Graves
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1399073427
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Gresley's Silver Link written by Tim Hillier-Graves and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2023-03-23 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gresley’s A4 Pacifics are arguably the most famous locomotives ever built, a status cemented by Mallard’s record breaking run on the 3rd July ‘38. And yet only a year later the glamorous ‘streaks’ seemed likely to be cast into obscurity by the coming of another world war. So, for only four exhilarating years they were allowed to flourish as their creator had intended and in that time captured the imagination of railwaymen and public alike. With the help of previously unpublished material the author analyses the complex evolution of the A4s - a project that began in 1911 when Gresley was appointed as Locomotive Superintendent of the Great Northern Railway. It is a story with many strands to consider – war, peace and war again, engineering and art, politics and business, recession and social change, the growth of the media and consumerism, the struggle for professional reputations and a growing, deeply damaging international rivalry. All these elements are captured in the story of the A4s in the heady days before conflict ended their brief golden age and Gresley’s life came to an end.
Author : Don Hale
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mallard written by Don Hale and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July 1938, the superbly streamlined A4 Pacific class steam locomotive "Mallard" set a world speed record on the East Coast main line of 126mph, a record which still stands. Now, some 65 years on, Don Hale tells the full story of how the record came to be broken. It's a tale that goes back to the late 19th century, when the rival railway companies first began to vie with one another to set speed records between London and Scotland. It charts the technological development of the steam engine through the early decades of the 20th century into a hugely powerful and truly locomotive machine. And above all, it focuses on the singular and larger-than-life character of Sir Nigel Gresley, Mallard's designer and one of the most gifted engineers Britain has ever produced. In an account that includes interviews with surviving crew members and their relatives, the book sets the scene for the big day itself, and follows hour by hour the nailbiting attempt to break the record, as the giant "Blue Streak" thunders up the main line through the heart of England and into the record books.
Author : Jonathan Glancey
Publisher : Atlantic Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1782395660
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)
Download or read book Giants of Steam written by Jonathan Glancey and published by Atlantic Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thrilling story of the last, and greatest, generation of steam railway locomotives in regular main line service: a story of invention, skill and passion, Giants of Steam reveals how the true advocates of steam's glory days pushed its design and performance to remarkable limits, taking these powerful and beautifully designed machines to new heights against a backdrop of the political upheavals and military conflicts of the mid twentieth century. Glancey tells the stories of the greatest of the 'steam men', the charismatic engineers who designed these machines and put them to use. Giants of Steam also reveals how steam design has continued to progress against the odds in recent decades, while enthusiasm for the steam locomotive itself is far from burning out.
Author : Ray Hamilton
Publisher : Summersdale
ISBN 13 : 1786856905
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)
Download or read book For the Love of Trains written by Ray Hamilton and published by Summersdale. This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than just a means of transport, trains connect communities, evoke memories and promise adventures galore. This fact-packed miscellany tracks their development from the earliest locomotives to today’s superfast trains, stopping off along the way to explore great railway journeys, iconic stations and memorable depictions in the arts.
